Alpine Soft

No I haven’t quit climbing or blogging about my minor adventures; I was just really, really busy the last half of 2013. New baby, busy job a...

Had a great trip with young Steven S. I only say young because he is less than half my age; impressive kid, loves mountains and is...

Fun, but short morning of cragging at the Mt. Baldy crag.   Raff K. only gave me beta on this nice little crag about a week ago.   I did fi...

Great day out with some early season cragging, first day on rock for me this season.   Meet up with Pat for an enjoyable day at Wasootch Sl...

May 6, still dismayed from the Columbia Icefield trip, and wanting to take advantage of the high pressure system that was providing perfect...

High hopes and expectations for this planned 4 day trip to the Columbia Icefields ended in a hugely disappointing trip for me. I always lik...

Had a great day with my old climbing buddy Jason, it has been awhile since we climbed some ice together.   Originally I was super ...

First climbed Guinness  Gully back in March of 1997 with Ian Hunt. Back on March 11 Kyle and I had a late start, but great ice conditions f...

Back in the day before Mixed climbing was a thing, yes, I remember those days, these three gullies across from Waterfowl Lakes wer...

Great day at Bear Spirit crag with Kyle, January 13.   We walked up and set up a top rope above a fun M6+ route, Woody, and did a lot of la...

January 5, 2013.  Short day casual day that started with a lot of people. Kevin P., Vern D., Eric C. and I headed out to ski up Mt. Haffner ...

lack of partners and only time for a short day, so I thought a solo ice route would be perfect.  I had read a trip report for a cool little ...

Met up with Kyle B. for some mixed climbing.  Originally we were both keen to head to the mixed bolted area, The Playground, but Kyle was ...

 'Lil Tombstone' with route As part of my Opal 35 Project, I was keen to bag the obscure and remote 2800 metre summit located ...

Great two day trip to Mt. Assiniboine which was in perfect conditions on Sept. 22, 2012. Vern and I approached from the BC side via Assin...

With crystal clear skies and no wind we had a glorious ascent of the South-West Face of Mount Fryatt on Sunday August 26.   Our team of 3 (...

August 20, 2012 had a great solo day up and down GR407165, better known as 'Tombstone South'.  Kane’s guidebook rates the south r...

On the fifth anniversary of the famous Nugara ascent of Mt. Packenham, Raff and I decided to climb this lovely peak.  Actually it was just...

Mt. Delphine July 22 Raff and I had big plans to day trip the gorgeous Purcell 11,000'er, Mount Delphine, but big washouts on the lo...

Back on July 21 the venerable Rafal and I scrambled Indian Head Mountain in the Columbia Valley.  Raff and I had plans for some fun mountain...